Subs are often hired as regular teachers here. Sometimes, it does leave us searching for additional subs.
We're still in the process of doing enrollment projections for next year. When the projections are completed, we'll know how many portables should go in and when and where they'll go in by January or February.
There are tracts of land that are going to be annexed by the city and are going to be developed by developers that we don't have mitigation agreements with. Part of our job is to continue to get agreements with all of those developers.
It doesn't sound like a lot. And it isn't a lot but it's six more cents and when you put it in perspective it adds up.
We're planning on taking the next three or four months to explore all of the options. Possibly those options can change, but the committee has done a lot of work and this is where we are at.
I really do appreciate the efforts of all the committee members. It's the kind of thing where if there was a simple solution to all of this, we would have arrived at it a long time ago.
Things have always operated with somewhat of a shortage. We could always use more qualified substitute teachers. There are days when the administrative staff looks for teachers to cover somebody's class because we couldn't find anybody to substitute.
We don't know the number of students for next year, but when we do, we'll determine if more portables are needed at each school. We will create campus maps with all potential future portable sites. We'll then bring ideas by the board so that they can see what the plan is.
We've reviewed the scan charts, enrollment projects and we've surveyed staff. We've really done a whole lot of work. We've reviewed boundary change options and looked at both short-term and long-term solutions.
One of the things we'll be looking at is how many students need to be accommodated before the new high school is ready for students to occupy it.
